MY BROTHER PASSED AWAY

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Just a short blog entry to say my brother passed away yesterday.

I just found out about it today as his wife's niece was so busy and she e-mailed me but had written down the wrong e-mail address. I sent her an e-mail so she could write me what she had sent.

Then I called my only living brother and my niece and we will see if we send flowers or what they want us to send.

Sorry this had to be a sad post but he said he was ready to meet the Lord.
The last words he said to me were on Sunday and he said "I love you too Irene".

I will always treasure that.

Irene

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MY BROTHER AND SMOKING

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

My brother is on hospice now and has round the clock care. He is so weak he can't hold the phone to talk so the nurse held the phone to his ear and I talked to him, prayed for him and told him I loved him. He said "I love you too Irene. I didn't understand what he said but the nurse told me what he said. She is so sweet and I bragged on her care of him.

I have had some real difficult days but believe Sunday was the worse.

Monty, a good friend from Spark, suddenly fell ill awhile back and he went fast also. He later confessed to all of his friends on Spark that he smoked and it destroyed him.

My brother quit smoking five years ago but he said it still affected him.

No I am not preaching but want to beg you that if you do smoke, please quit.
I lost a sister from smoking also. She had a heart attack and then had cancer which spread all over. When I was very young many years ago it was the in thing to do and if you didn't smoke you were called chicken. I am glad God delivered me from it over 50 years ago.

SO PLEASE, PLEASE IF YOU SMOKE STOP. That would be a part of your healthy life style.

With love and caring.

Irene

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UPDATE ON MY BROTHER

Monday, November 12, 2012

Thank all of you for your prayers and words of kindness about my brother which I wrote in my last blog "Desperate prayer request".

My brother called last night. He had to go to the hospital again and have 2 more quarts of liquid drained off of him. They gave him his report of his MRI and he found out he has stage 4 cancer. Very sad. He said he can't take care of his wife and he is going to try to get her in an assisted living. I hope she doesn't get kicked out as she did in the nursing home. They kept her less than one day as she was trying to get out and was hurting them and herself. It is so sad. He did pray with me though for salvation. He was the last one to receive the Lord of my family.

Also I have been MIA as my computer was not working. My friend came today and was able to hook my monitor and my wireless keyboard to my laptop as I don't like the laptop. Neither of them had been working right for several days.

I missed out on a lot of points but that is the least of my concerns right now.
I may have to buy a new PC or stay with two computers hooked up as without the laptop the PC won't work.

God bless all of you who prayed and have been so kind.
Irene

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DESPERATE PRAYER REQUEST

Sunday, November 04, 2012

PRAYER REQUEST

I have two brothers left. We were 7 siblings and all the youngest are gone, the three oldest remain of which I am the oldest.
Some time ago the doctor found a mass on my brother's pancreas but his wife has alzheimers and he took care of her instead of himself. He tried to put her in a nursing home but they had no lock up for the Alzheimer's patients so she fought them to get out and hurt them and herself also. They kept her less than a day. In the town they live in they do not have a nursing home with an alzheimers unit. They live in California.

He got down to 137 at almost 6 foot tall. One day her caregiver which came in only to take her vitals, etc. noticed he wasn't well and got him to the hospital fast. He was in the hospital 5 days and they did an MRI. They found two tumors on his lungs and he can hardly breathe. He has copd. Now he weighs 118 and said looks like one of the starving people of Africa. When I called last night he said he was better but his wife worse. He said she doesn't realize he could go at any time.
He is 1 1/2 years younger than I.
It is such a desperate situation since he has to care for her and I know how that is. They have no children just as I have no children

He is on oxygen of course.

Anyone who prays please pray for him.

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WHY I CAN'T STOP NOW

Friday, November 02, 2012

121 days ago I went on a no dessert streak.

Why

Because my dessert eating was out of control. I couldn't have just one, I couldn't have just one portion; I had to have the whole thing.

Now I can't stop. what?, stop eating. No I can't
the streak.

One reason after so long I no longer wanted dessert. I can sit beside desserts and I am not tempted.

Another reason is because of the quote by Robert E Lee.

"You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set." permalink Robert Edward Lee

I don't know how many people I have influenced on going on the no dessert streak.

and think. What does sugar do FOR your body.
What does sugar do TO your body.

Two different things.

Let's continue the streak. Don't become a sugarholic.

Irene

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